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well i'm tom are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture why are people upset with republicans could it have something to do with their failed policies or their toxic addiction to reaganomics well not according to paul ryan what the ryan say about the election outcome and what do his words say about the republican party as a whole also congress has yet to pass comprehensive legislation to deal with the american housing crisis and their refusal to act is costing american lives the same cannot be said for the spanish government which cares about the lives of its people when will washington feel the same way and you think japan would do everything it could to avoid another nuclear disaster but you'd be wrong what's the latest news coming out of japan right now and has america learned anything from the fukushima devastation. you need to know this the last hundred years have seen three hugely consequential presidencies presidencies that defined and changed the nature and face of america firs
well i'm tom are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture why are people upset with republicans could it have something to do with their failed policies or their toxic addiction to reaganomics well not according to paul ryan what the ryan say about the election outcome and what do his words say about the republican party as a whole also congress has yet to pass comprehensive legislation to deal with the american housing crisis and their refusal to act is...
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well i'm john berman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the two thousand and twelve election is finally over as the last night turned out to be a big win for president obama and democrats across the country so what's next for the republican party and will republicans in congress finally start putting the country first and politics second that and more into the post election and later in the show we'll have a special post-election edition of your take my take live your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment live on the air. you need to know this there's only one way to interpret what happened tuesday night and that is it was agonizing for progressives shortly after eleven pm last night the key battleground state of ohio was called for president obama pushing him over the two hundred seventy electoral college votes needed to win the white house but he didn't actually need ohio all eight battleground states went the president's way tuesday night and he also won the popular
well i'm john berman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the two thousand and twelve election is finally over as the last night turned out to be a big win for president obama and democrats across the country so what's next for the republican party and will republicans in congress finally start putting the country first and politics second that and more into the post election and later in the show we'll have a special post-election edition of your take my...
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leader mitch mcconnell said i know some people out there think tuesday's results mean republicans in washington are now going to roll over and agree to democrat demands that we hike tax rates before the end of the year that's all there is no truth to that notion whatsoever so are republicans willing to let america go off the fiscal cliff just to protect the wealthy from having to pay their fair share of taxes brian you have your hand up you are ready to go if you look at what happened the president say that he did not he was not going to negotiate on tax cuts for those making over two hundred thousand dollars a year so you have a president who's not giving much ground while individuals making over two hundred thousand families making over two hundred fifty thousand year so it doesn't seem like there's much compromise in that in that stance that he took in republicans have said they will do comprehensive tax reform but it has it has to be something that doesn't raise taxes have been even for really intransigent and saying we're not going to raise taxes on rich people well john boehner did put an
leader mitch mcconnell said i know some people out there think tuesday's results mean republicans in washington are now going to roll over and agree to democrat demands that we hike tax rates before the end of the year that's all there is no truth to that notion whatsoever so are republicans willing to let america go off the fiscal cliff just to protect the wealthy from having to pay their fair share of taxes brian you have your hand up you are ready to go if you look at what happened the...
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well this has been a day filled with extremely long lines at polling places even here in washington d.c. where some reported waiting for up to two hours to cast their vote in virginia up to four hours and in florida up to six hours and it's been a campaign filled with mixed messages ups and downs and a whole lot of money how will all this translate into votes and winners is still to be determined but we will soon know and we'll bring it to you live with an in-depth discussion of what it all means for you the country and the world and of course people are not just voting for president all four hundred thirty five seats in the u.s. house of representatives are up for grabs as are thirty three seats in the senate there's a lot at stake in this election. well let's go now to our elections night analyst found facts to run through what we know so far which polls have just closed and what we need to look for for the rest of the night fam there's some new information to you christine thank you tom just a little bit of new information so here's what we know we've got kentucky west virginia south
well this has been a day filled with extremely long lines at polling places even here in washington d.c. where some reported waiting for up to two hours to cast their vote in virginia up to four hours and in florida up to six hours and it's been a campaign filled with mixed messages ups and downs and a whole lot of money how will all this translate into votes and winners is still to be determined but we will soon know and we'll bring it to you live with an in-depth discussion of what it all...
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well i'm going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture as the fiscal cliff deadline looms large can progress as in congress protect the millions of jobless americans but also for seeing the wealthy elite to pay their fair share in taxes will ask incoming congressman alan grayson florida's ninth congressional district also to reporters out revealing the sea levels around the world are rising faster than previously thought after a point in a climate change denier to a top committee in congress a republican still planning to ignore the obvious and later in the show we'll have a your take my take a live segment your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment live on the air. you need to know this the so-called fiscal cliff nears which means it's time for republicans to take some hostages there were signs earlier this week that republicans may be willing to cave in on the bush tax cuts for the rich when congressman tom cole called on his party his republican party to take presi
well i'm going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture as the fiscal cliff deadline looms large can progress as in congress protect the millions of jobless americans but also for seeing the wealthy elite to pay their fair share in taxes will ask incoming congressman alan grayson florida's ninth congressional district also to reporters out revealing the sea levels around the world are rising faster than previously thought after a point in a climate change denier...
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well john are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. don't americans want a progressive approach when it comes to solving our nation's economic woes and why do republicans want to block americans access to health care all that and more engine nights alone liberal rumble and black friday one of the busiest and most lucrative shopping days of the year is a little over a week away well striking wal-mart employees deal a blow to the bottom line of the world's largest corporation. you need to know this they're up to it again this time with what they call the fiscal cliff where of conmen bearing slogans the oldest trick in the book is for conservatives cons to create his steria around something and then get all of us to give them billions of our tax dollars to fix the problem that they've gotten us all hysterical about. four generations ago the right was ripping up hysteria about reefer madness that got us to spend trillions over the years incarcerating mostly poor people for a mostly victimless crime but they made a fortune doing and now the
well john are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. don't americans want a progressive approach when it comes to solving our nation's economic woes and why do republicans want to block americans access to health care all that and more engine nights alone liberal rumble and black friday one of the busiest and most lucrative shopping days of the year is a little over a week away well striking wal-mart employees deal a blow to the bottom line of the...
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economy and i think it's a matter of the republicans getting outside of the beltway outside of the washington bubble and to think about the greater global issues in the global economy and the global market and to figure out how to work with it rather than try to fight it and you know the only time we ever hear about the global market is in terms of outsourcing jobs we don't hear about foreign direct investments that might be possible to grow the pie bigger for everybody american companies could be doing that sort of thing for example we don't hear about you know we hear a lot for example about bailouts and how and how the government is barack obama's tons of money into into new technology new energy and that sort of thing develop new energy and we don't hear about the possibility of maybe responding to a demand of say the saudi arabian government that's looking to build a solar power plant and could very very well perhaps use an american company that would be interested in tinkering with that kind of thing that maybe has some experience doing it they have the funds we have the will to do it a
economy and i think it's a matter of the republicans getting outside of the beltway outside of the washington bubble and to think about the greater global issues in the global economy and the global market and to figure out how to work with it rather than try to fight it and you know the only time we ever hear about the global market is in terms of outsourcing jobs we don't hear about foreign direct investments that might be possible to grow the pie bigger for everybody american companies could...
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good evening it's friday november twenty third five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching r.t. . let's begin with an update from the middle east where at this hour a cease fire between israel and hamas continues to hold according to israel's journalism outlet deb much of that ceasefire is owed to a phone call by president obama to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in which president obama promised to send u.s. troops to the sinai peninsula that egyptian territory in north africa surrounded by the suez canal canal in the west and israel on the right now this follows eight days of violence between gaza and israel that left more than one hundred sixty palestinians in gaza dead more than half of whom are civilians including thirty seven children four civilians and two soldiers have also been killed in israel just a little while ago a spokesman for israeli's prime minister spoke to our t.v. alex jones keep blames hamas for the deaths of so many civilians in gaza. these rule doesn't target civilians and if we heard civilians we see failure i
good evening it's friday november twenty third five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching r.t. . let's begin with an update from the middle east where at this hour a cease fire between israel and hamas continues to hold according to israel's journalism outlet deb much of that ceasefire is owed to a phone call by president obama to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in which president obama promised to send u.s. troops to the sinai peninsula that egyptian territory in north...
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well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and welcome to a special holiday edition of the big picture whole team here hope you had a great thanksgiving and i we're going to bring you two very important in-depth discussions i had on the show recently about two of the most important issues facing our nation health care and climate change we begin with the bigger picture discussion from just last week what the recent election means for our nation's health care system now that obamacare is to quote speaker of the house john boehner the law of the land in this discussion i speak with three health care experts about what to expect as obamacare kicks into effect over the next few years and what the prospects are for a single payer system to finally materialize in the united states so here it is a bigger picture discussion on health care in america. tonight we have a special bigger picture discussion on health care in america an increasing number of republicans in congress acknowledging that obamacare is here to stay and president ob
well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and welcome to a special holiday edition of the big picture whole team here hope you had a great thanksgiving and i we're going to bring you two very important in-depth discussions i had on the show recently about two of the most important issues facing our nation health care and climate change we begin with the bigger picture discussion from just last week what the recent election means for our nation's health care system now that obamacare is to quote...
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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. in the zeer headlines for monday november fifth two thousand and twelve bond speculators doubled their long exposure to u.s. ten year treasuries last week says reuters reporting the f.t.c. data while bloggers from zero hedge say this marks the highest position since march of two thousand and eight we'll hear from hedge fund portfolio advisor grant williams on what might be driving this move will also talk about what you want the elections and the fiscal cliff look like from asia where he does his pondering most of the time and.
good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. in the zeer headlines for monday november fifth two thousand and twelve bond speculators doubled their long exposure to u.s. ten year treasuries last week says reuters reporting the f.t.c. data while bloggers from zero hedge say this marks the highest position since march of two thousand and eight we'll hear from hedge fund portfolio advisor grant williams on what might be driving this move will also talk about...
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well it's monday november twelfth five pm in washington d.c. my name is christine for and you're watching our team. well over the last few days there has been quite a bit of fallout over the resignation of cia director general david petraeus over an extramarital affair but according to a select few the affair with the woman who was not his wife is not the biggest issue here the bigger problem they argue is that the affair the general has with the media has been a problem as a result a whole lot of questions that probably should have been asked about petraeus jobs and about that attack in benghazi libya that killed ambassador chris stevens were not asked here's something we wondered back on september eighteenth but here's an interesting detail in a public detail if you take a look at the u.s. state department's web site which we did provide a list of all u.s. embassies consulates and diplomatic missions strangely not listed the diplomatic mission and benghazi but a quick search on the site will turn up numerous other diplomatic missions in the u
well it's monday november twelfth five pm in washington d.c. my name is christine for and you're watching our team. well over the last few days there has been quite a bit of fallout over the resignation of cia director general david petraeus over an extramarital affair but according to a select few the affair with the woman who was not his wife is not the biggest issue here the bigger problem they argue is that the affair the general has with the media has been a problem as a result a whole lot...
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what do you think about what the people in colorado and washington have done recently in the last election well given the choices and frankly i think kevin. has put them out there that that's the choice that we seem to have a lot of collateral damage or legalization and i would like to see a more nuanced approach but frankly from what i see. i would have voted for legalization in both elections like i say i think the damage that we're currently inflicting on young people in the it's this country the damage that's going on in latin america that i don't think that i think kevin is absolutely right this is the beginning of a conversation i very much hope that the united states will look at its drug war overseas and open up that conversation with the latin americans in a very serious way to look at the current policy and the alternatives ok i would have voted for legalization ok how do you react to that kevin because i mean the war on drugs as people call it do you think it's a success i mean we go through a lot of the issues related to the who use that right right you know the only people tha
what do you think about what the people in colorado and washington have done recently in the last election well given the choices and frankly i think kevin. has put them out there that that's the choice that we seem to have a lot of collateral damage or legalization and i would like to see a more nuanced approach but frankly from what i see. i would have voted for legalization in both elections like i say i think the damage that we're currently inflicting on young people in the it's this...
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well it's thursday november fifteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. while we we've been telling you about the rolling jubilee the initiative organized by members of occupy wall street to raise money and put it towards buying up people's debt many are calling it the people's bailout and so far they have raised more than two hundred thousand dollars and this evening the group will hold a huge fund raiser a telethon to try to raise that much much more money to help as many people as possible argue correspond on a stasia churkin to has been covering this all week she joins me from our studios in new york i've also got here are the producer adrienne it was so. at all with me in studio on a thousand let me start with you are what is expected at tonight's telethon hey guys are so finally the days here the telethon starts and of course even days leading up to this enormous amounts of money have already been raised and what we're expecting tonight is really even though the cause is really serious and the debt that the
well it's thursday november fifteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. while we we've been telling you about the rolling jubilee the initiative organized by members of occupy wall street to raise money and put it towards buying up people's debt many are calling it the people's bailout and so far they have raised more than two hundred thousand dollars and this evening the group will hold a huge fund raiser a telethon to try to raise that much much more money...
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going to let your you know in washington you touch every single time i go ahead peter in washington had what seems to me is that the legalization is in some sense should be taken by washington and and anybody who is in favor of prohibition as an alarm that people there has been no response so the call for alternatives i look at latin america i've been working. in there for forty years and the way the u.s. goes about dealing with the drug problem drug issues in latin america is similar to the way it was done thirty years ago look at the us in honduras recently it's just so similar to the way we dealt with bolivia and peru thirty years ago that's just and the latin americans have never been able to get the attention of the united states to look at alternatives carol and i and reading into that read it a little ization is not opposed thumbprints a little but they're not looking at us as simply refused any idea of a debate discussion and now they're ringing the alarm bells and the only way to get washington's attention i think there is to be used i mean i think they're going to say i should
going to let your you know in washington you touch every single time i go ahead peter in washington had what seems to me is that the legalization is in some sense should be taken by washington and and anybody who is in favor of prohibition as an alarm that people there has been no response so the call for alternatives i look at latin america i've been working. in there for forty years and the way the u.s. goes about dealing with the drug problem drug issues in latin america is similar to the...
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reaching their objectives in fact when i was a massacre in washington number of years back i said that the way you're going you're not going to succeed and the tragedy is that you will make us the fall guy and i think today in your opinion what was the purpose of this whole operation and why are you leaving now well the purpose was to defeat the taliban and remove them and initially they did succeed and removing the taliban from kabul but evidently they had not studied the history of of one instant and they didn't realize that they had vanished survived and came back and the taliban. today i think if you look at a couple of indicators you looked at the rate of the garbage. you see how much law and order did this and of what. you see how popular of the government that. is their freedom of movement is their development has the poppy production gone down has begun turning gone down you take any indicator. they have not succeeded this brings us to the next question since well al qaeda has been largely defeated perhaps in afghanistan by the taliban store there it's actually aiming now to be
reaching their objectives in fact when i was a massacre in washington number of years back i said that the way you're going you're not going to succeed and the tragedy is that you will make us the fall guy and i think today in your opinion what was the purpose of this whole operation and why are you leaving now well the purpose was to defeat the taliban and remove them and initially they did succeed and removing the taliban from kabul but evidently they had not studied the history of of one...
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dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was it how did it happen we did the national health service i didn't i acceptable. practice because they can't fight was. was out i was. fine i think you're going to have a snow cave you are right. actually it. was. put down the street and join protesters picketing outside where a dare risk wrote shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because. for my father martin i was full suicide get shot at the head of every state. but because her life partner did have enough money to pay for their take care of it and didn't want to ask because my sister and myself first fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide that i've ever heard of and he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from anybody saying you know return this for this person and cetera et ceter
dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was it how did it happen we did the national health service i didn't i acceptable. practice because they can't fight was. was out i was. fine i think you're going to have a snow cave you are right. actually it. was. put down the...
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let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and spend a lot of money to walk around in a circle and. i think. what . these. people. i'm fine thank you. particularly much for. i get what you say but for all the government no longer represents the people the people are going to say. thank you. thank. you thank you. i. thank you. for. i. mean five thirty in the morning is a comedy on most mornings early in the occupy wall street movement there would only be about fifty maybe two hundred or so occupying the space but at five thirty in the morning on the morning of october fourteenth two thousand and eleven several thousand people were gathered there wide awake why because mayor mike bloomberg had declared that his own personal army his words the n.y.p.d. constituting the seventh largest army in the world would have dicked occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there armed with an idea some cardboard signs and an urgency to
let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and spend a lot of money to walk around in a circle and. i think. what . these. people. i'm fine thank you. particularly much for. i get what you say but for all the government no longer represents the people the people are going to say. thank you. thank. you thank you. i. thank you. for. i. mean five thirty in the morning is a comedy on most mornings early in the occupy...
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dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington for health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was to get how can we do that and then i'll get it i didn't i acceptable. practice because they can provide i was. was out i was. fine it seems like you're going to have the snow cave really you are right of the real. it. sally. but honestly and join protesters picketing outside where adair a scarlet shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because up to now for my father martin i was full suicide get shot it had every state yes but because her life partner did have enough money to pay for health care to take care of it and didn't want to ask because my sister and myself were fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide i've ever heard of and he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turned this post this person an
dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington for health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was to get how can we do that and then i'll get it i didn't i acceptable. practice because they can provide i was. was out i was. fine it seems like you're going to have the snow cave really you are right of the real. it....
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well i'm john berman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. when the democratic party do best with what it champions the progressive policies and causes that will build a stronger america for the fiscal cliff negotiations heating up will democrats heed the advice of f.d.r. and stick to the party's progressive roots also last wednesday washington and colorado became the first two states to legalize marijuana much to the joy college students in both states but as president obama ready to stop nixon's failed war on drugs and allow college campuses to go green and california law says that corporations are people so shouldn't you be able to drive in the highway carpool lane just you and your incorporation papers by yourself. you need to know this the biggest message out of the two thousand and twelve election that you'll never hear from the corporate media is this that americans believe and voted to affirm that believe that government can be a solution to the problems we face the government can do good things and that ronald reagan was wrong. ameri
well i'm john berman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. when the democratic party do best with what it champions the progressive policies and causes that will build a stronger america for the fiscal cliff negotiations heating up will democrats heed the advice of f.d.r. and stick to the party's progressive roots also last wednesday washington and colorado became the first two states to legalize marijuana much to the joy college students in both states but...
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the cross of the war on drugs i'm joined by peter hachim in washington he's president emeritus and a senior fellow at the interim american dialogue and in boston we have kevin so bad he is director of the drug policy institute at the university of florida and a former white house senior adviser under rug policy are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to come and i am i to go to you i mean this talk about colorado is talking about washington i mean the perception outside of the united states is that the united states is legalizing it at home but continuing the war on drugs in mexico so how do you square the circle. well i mean you know colorado and washington had votes but frankly federal law is still supreme in what federal laws and this is what president obama has said numerous times is that marijuana still illegal so i think the message to the world is that just because two states decided to legalize marijuana that this is really going to be caught up in the courts for a while and this is really the beginning of the conversation and not
the cross of the war on drugs i'm joined by peter hachim in washington he's president emeritus and a senior fellow at the interim american dialogue and in boston we have kevin so bad he is director of the drug policy institute at the university of florida and a former white house senior adviser under rug policy are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to come and i am i to go to you i mean this talk about colorado is talking about washington i mean...
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well money that they expect to be used in the right way without which washington can literally money at that arrives and then passes through the government manages the reconstruction work. and the work of the local nongovernmental organizations so it is clear that if the majority of the government is made up of the corrupted will or it's where the money will end up in their pockets around their little international community has encouraged the corruption that effects our country today. hard to believe. that after spending you know. hundred billion dollars in afghanistan is still going to stand as the worst award for the rights of the children afghanistan is. the second country from the down put there for the power to afghanistan is the highest. and the war of maternal mortality that each fifteen minutes one woman dies from in my turn maternity because of lack of access to the clinic what a lot of money has arrived in afghanistan to improve the situation of women but i don't think it has brought many improvements. expectation that to be respected as a women as a human i'm not cussing
well money that they expect to be used in the right way without which washington can literally money at that arrives and then passes through the government manages the reconstruction work. and the work of the local nongovernmental organizations so it is clear that if the majority of the government is made up of the corrupted will or it's where the money will end up in their pockets around their little international community has encouraged the corruption that effects our country today. hard to...
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to the washington post. let me read it. minimal supervision. he were under minimal supervision in two thousand and three zero pentagon essentially panicked and a very desperate secretary of defense did whatever he had to do very very quickly to try to get more intelligence and that meant running out and hiring a bunch of contractors who didn't know what they were doing and putting them wrongly in the chain of command military intelligence that's what they did they were desperate. to build a new. mission to teach me the creation of. this is why you should. only. well into the future science technology innovation all the means to mellow minutes from around rush hour we've got the future covered. parents versus social workers docu nabby pm last stop me that many children have become prizes to fight full why does the law threaten families the social for it to see in the form of they have a right of willful minimal faith in what they have any kind of suspicion about the world will think of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids th
to the washington post. let me read it. minimal supervision. he were under minimal supervision in two thousand and three zero pentagon essentially panicked and a very desperate secretary of defense did whatever he had to do very very quickly to try to get more intelligence and that meant running out and hiring a bunch of contractors who didn't know what they were doing and putting them wrongly in the chain of command military intelligence that's what they did they were desperate. to build a...
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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday november second two thousand and twelve jobs numbers for october show the unemployment rate inching up a tenth of a percent to seven point nine percent but this is because more people entered the labor force which may be a good sign and payrolls climbed more than forecast so are we seeing incremental improvements on the labor front how sustainable is it given all the stimulus measures in place since two thousand and eight and what do wages indicate about an economic recovery or lack thereof we'll talk about it and today the buzz is the labor department's report yesterday it was the private a.d.p. jobs report reportedly showing companies expanding payrolls the most in eight months now these numbers get so much buzz when they come out less so when revisions are later released what can we learn from a.d.p. is revisionist history that could temper our expectations and from superstorm sandy's price gouging to catastrophe bonds to why you would citizens d
good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday november second two thousand and twelve jobs numbers for october show the unemployment rate inching up a tenth of a percent to seven point nine percent but this is because more people entered the labor force which may be a good sign and payrolls climbed more than forecast so are we seeing incremental improvements on the labor front how sustainable is it given all the...
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must go once is at least something in writing well do you think that there is something that prevents washington profer it from putting something obligations in writing at least what what what is it the congress the public opinion the allies what. just statements even in rating are not sufficient we soar and we were satisfied and we welcomed when the nato summit in chicago may last produced a statement along the lines in along the lines which i described the problem here is that these statement was not ease not a legally binding one we need an agreement and here is the difficulty because both as you say the congress. namely the senate when it adopted ratification resolution on the new start the u.s. . allies probably not all of them but most of them and the administration itself made it extremely difficult to move on this particular issue and you know we are somewhat stuck so the movement in chicago was welcomed by russian side but it was not sufficient well let's get back to reset to this phrase that four years ago we all remember the state sector of moscow that big red button it well it played
must go once is at least something in writing well do you think that there is something that prevents washington profer it from putting something obligations in writing at least what what what is it the congress the public opinion the allies what. just statements even in rating are not sufficient we soar and we were satisfied and we welcomed when the nato summit in chicago may last produced a statement along the lines in along the lines which i described the problem here is that these statement...
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it's tuesday november thirteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t. well we begin today with a look at a movement that says it's bailing out the people rather than the big banks we're talking about the occupy wall street movement and yesterday we talked about their new initiative called the rolling jubilee which buys distressed debt in order to forgive it and while those in the movement are often painted as bongo playing hippies are the correspondent on a saucer churkin to take a more nuanced look at those involved. an artist carving out his college debt number and walks over seventy thousand dollars from columbia and for a masters of fine arts and award winning actress teaching a class at the new york film academy what happens when you intensely focus on an object and to form a wall street employee volunteering and post hurricane sandy relief efforts do you know the name of your driver what could they possibly have in common their support for the occupy wall street movement. from day one of occupy the clip the wi
it's tuesday november thirteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t. well we begin today with a look at a movement that says it's bailing out the people rather than the big banks we're talking about the occupy wall street movement and yesterday we talked about their new initiative called the rolling jubilee which buys distressed debt in order to forgive it and while those in the movement are often painted as bongo playing hippies are the correspondent on a...
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time will tell some how these contractors have leverage power in washington and the government feels like they want to protect these people maybe they want to protect these the security of these contracts and they want to protect them from prosecution almost of the managers and most of their the people we dealt with working for titan were ex-military officers haven't enough a serious all major military contract is have a board of directors and a senior management that is composed of seamy a retired military person balance their wings and this allows them to be able to go get contracts. possibly come up with. no problems with our kinds of goals. because washington is a phenomenally incestuous place where retired senior officers capitol hill staffers and defense industry men you know the usual suspects come back again and again. mostly for the next few months the michael. moore. here on the practice field. cleaning off my home. top recipients of money from halliburton titan cauchy and blackwater are the two chairmen of the committees in congress and the house of representatives that ov
time will tell some how these contractors have leverage power in washington and the government feels like they want to protect these people maybe they want to protect these the security of these contracts and they want to protect them from prosecution almost of the managers and most of their the people we dealt with working for titan were ex-military officers haven't enough a serious all major military contract is have a board of directors and a senior management that is composed of seamy a...
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well good evening it's monday november nineteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team let's begin this evening in the middle east where the violence between israel and hamas has intensified with bombs exploding inside of gaza. the latest reports have more than one hundred palestinians and at least three israelis killed over the last six days and much of the world is watching to see if this air war escalates to a ground war president obama was asked about the situation and here's what he said . there's no come through on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders so we are fully supportive of israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians and quite a few people have been watching what's going on and certainly drawing some parallels pointing out the vast similarities with what's happening today with the way it unfolded four years ago similar scenes of tanks of bulldozers in the very same regions not to mention the
well good evening it's monday november nineteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team let's begin this evening in the middle east where the violence between israel and hamas has intensified with bombs exploding inside of gaza. the latest reports have more than one hundred palestinians and at least three israelis killed over the last six days and much of the world is watching to see if this air war escalates to a ground war president obama was asked about the...
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on the job posting as it was reprinted in the washington post. on the poster here behind me and let me read it says under minimal supervision. he were under minimal supervision in two thousand and three zero pentagon essentially panicked and a very desperate secretary of defense did whatever he had to do very very quickly to try to get more intelligence and that meant running out and hiring a bunch of contractors who didn't know what they were doing and putting them wrongly in the chain of command military intelligence that's what they did they were. the world with the. money it's technology. all the instant around russia we've got the. morning's today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the
on the job posting as it was reprinted in the washington post. on the poster here behind me and let me read it says under minimal supervision. he were under minimal supervision in two thousand and three zero pentagon essentially panicked and a very desperate secretary of defense did whatever he had to do very very quickly to try to get more intelligence and that meant running out and hiring a bunch of contractors who didn't know what they were doing and putting them wrongly in the chain of...
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drone a few miles from its airspace last week was that i washington respect mistaken washington provocations you think briefly. yes i think it was a mistake i think it was a provocation the iranians charge that the drone was over iranian waters washington says they were international waters in any case there are many questions that need to be raised about this proliferation of drone warfare it raises searching questions about international law and it's a political ety all right thanks very much for being on the program much appreciated author and story gerald hold thank you. strong in a broader unable to return to a sick mother we're reporting on. who is a god from coming home to the us. we talk about. that could be. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spilling black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in sov
drone a few miles from its airspace last week was that i washington respect mistaken washington provocations you think briefly. yes i think it was a mistake i think it was a provocation the iranians charge that the drone was over iranian waters washington says they were international waters in any case there are many questions that need to be raised about this proliferation of drone warfare it raises searching questions about international law and it's a political ety all right thanks very much...
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well i mean you know colorado and washington had votes but frankly federal law is still supreme in what federal laws and this is what president obama has said numerous times is that marijuana still illegal so i think the message to the world is that just because two states decided to legalize marijuana that this is really going to be caught up in the courts for a while and this is really the beginning of the conversation and not be and you know unfortunately voters were sold a false choice between prohibition on one side and super in force and criminalization and legalization on the other side and the reality is that the this is actually a false choice this is not between legalization or prohibition you can actually have a kind of policy that it's much more nuanced than that ok peter in washington what do you think about what the people in colorado and washington have done recently in the last election well given the choices and frankly i think kevin. has put them out there that that's the choice that we seem to have a lot of collateral damage or legalization and i would like to see a m
well i mean you know colorado and washington had votes but frankly federal law is still supreme in what federal laws and this is what president obama has said numerous times is that marijuana still illegal so i think the message to the world is that just because two states decided to legalize marijuana that this is really going to be caught up in the courts for a while and this is really the beginning of the conversation and not be and you know unfortunately voters were sold a false choice...
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washington is a phenomenally incestuous place where retired senior officers capitol hill staffers and defense industry men you know the usual suspects come back again to get. us really next. three years to. keep me off my. top recipients of money from halliburton titan cauchy and blackwater are the two chairmen of the committees in congress and the house of representatives that oversee know what terry matters and spending the major corporations he's cartel about uppity corporations they've figured out how to legally buy influence. i would echo the words of pope john paul the second profit by itself is not a sufficient motivation for business endeavors you're operating in the realm of greed you're not operating the realm of morality. which iraq and came back was so heartbreaking was that i found that we weren't that we weren't always the good guys and it was very disillusioning for me because i'd grown up with this like dream of america what america was. and i saw a dream and upgrade and i wasn't become i felt heartbroken i feel like i didn't know what it was to be an american because
washington is a phenomenally incestuous place where retired senior officers capitol hill staffers and defense industry men you know the usual suspects come back again to get. us really next. three years to. keep me off my. top recipients of money from halliburton titan cauchy and blackwater are the two chairmen of the committees in congress and the house of representatives that oversee know what terry matters and spending the major corporations he's cartel about uppity corporations they've...
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fiscal cliff i'm joined by edward harrison in washington he is the founder of credit write downs also in washington we have mark levine he is a senior advisor with the truman national security project and in new york we cross to anthony rideout so he is the director of economic research for the reason foundation all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and what if i go to you first in washington give us the magnitude of the fiscal cliff ok a lot is being talked about it what happens if we go over the cliff doesn't sound like something good to happen. there you know there are three or four things that can have been terms of tax cuts and spending cuts tax increases and spending cuts and the total if we were to do absolutely nothing would be about six hundred billion dollars in a fifteen trillion dollar economy quite severe it would definitely go into recession would be a severe recession it would be a very bad thing for the economy ok mark how do you come into this i mean hasn't the market price this into some degree. i don't think they'v
fiscal cliff i'm joined by edward harrison in washington he is the founder of credit write downs also in washington we have mark levine he is a senior advisor with the truman national security project and in new york we cross to anthony rideout so he is the director of economic research for the reason foundation all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and what if i go to you first in washington give us the magnitude of the fiscal cliff ok a lot...
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american public wants and what is going to pursue washington go on. just briefly campaign pledges he promise to shut down guantanamo bay today of course is still open for business and the president even has the power to assassinate anyone it will converge is really trust what a boma has to say and whether he will keep his promises if he gets in this time around again. i don't think they can trust really any additional troops. there are going to make this. moment. i don't think any better on the ronnie brown thing but he's. going to rule some more people over there are going to say was it wrong you can actually prove anything so he's going to that and convincing the american public he's we know from you know what you just this or both of these. or. better bigger than. yours so i don't think any. promises made during campaign. are you working. ok trying to thank you very much indeed for your thoughts to see it live in the usa and uk by the way of course we'll be continuing extensive coverage here in l a t as the vote progress is tackling issues you won'
american public wants and what is going to pursue washington go on. just briefly campaign pledges he promise to shut down guantanamo bay today of course is still open for business and the president even has the power to assassinate anyone it will converge is really trust what a boma has to say and whether he will keep his promises if he gets in this time around again. i don't think they can trust really any additional troops. there are going to make this. moment. i don't think any better on the...